Decision 66/48

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for Sudan for the period 2010 to 2017 to reduce HCFC consumption by 30 per cent of the baseline, at the amount of US $400,000, plus agency support costs of US $30,000 for UNIDO, and noting that the project to phase out 11.87 ODP tonnes of HCFC-141b used for polyurethane rigid foam production in the manufacture of domestic refrigerators, commercial refrigerators and polyurethane insulated composite panels by four enterprises, at the amount of US $1,056,341, plus agency support costs of US $79,226 for UNIDO, had already been approved at the 62^nd meeting of the Executive Committee in 2010 and had been included in stage I of the HPMP;
2. To note:
   1. That, with the amounts referred to in subparagraph (a) above, the total funding for stage I of the HPMP for Sudan amounted to US $1,456,341, plus agency support costs of US $109,226;
   2. That the Government of Sudan had agreed to establish as its starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption the baseline of 50.6 ODP tonnes reported for 2009 under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol, which were the latest data available when the HCFC phase-out umbrella project had been approved at the 62^nd meeting;
   3. The deduction of 11.87 ODP tonnes of HCFCs from the starting point for sustained aggregate reduction in HCFC consumption for the project approved at the 62nd meeting, and to deduct a further 4.28 ODP tonnes of HCFCs for implementation of stage I of the HPMP;
   4. That approval of stage I of the HPMP did not preclude Sudan from submitting, prior to 2015, a proposal to achieve a reduction in HCFC consumption beyond that addressed in stage I of the HPMP;
3. To approve the draft Agreement* between the Government of Sudan and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HCFCs, as contained in Annex to the present report; and
4. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the HPMP for Sudan, and the corresponding implementation plan, at the amount of US $250,000, plus agency support costs of US $18,750 for UNIDO.

• This Agreement was revised as per Decision 73/35